Junior Software Engineer

WEX; United States; Remote; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking passionate software engineers to join their Benefits Technology team. You will collaborate with stakeholders, design solutions, and support live applications while continuously improving engineering processes. Ideal candidates hold a relevant degree and 1 year of experience, with strong skills in C# or Python.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required.
• At least 1 year of experience in software engineering.
• Strong problem-solving skills and passion for modern technologies.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to address customer challenges.
• Design, test, code, and implement new solutions.
• Analyze existing systems for improvements.

Skills

Problem Solving

Communication

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field

Tools

C#

Python

Job description

About the Team/Role

At WEX, we simplify the business of running a business. Our WEX Benefits solutions reduce complexity and help manage costs of benefits administration for our clients and partners. We are looking for passionate technologists, collaborators, and problem solvers to join our Benefits Technology team as we build the next generation of employer benefits solutions and services.

How you'll make an impact

• Collaborate with stakeholders to learn about our customers biggest challenges.

• Measure, inspect, and drive decisions using data.

• Design, test, code, and instrument new solutions.

• Strengthen and drive our engineering process with TDD and BDD, Microservice and Vertical Slice Architectures.

• Support live applications, promote proactive monitoring, rapid incident response, and continuous improvement.

• Analyze existing systems and processes to identify bottlenecks and opportunities for improvements.

• Learn our team’s process and best practices, and apply them to given tasks with help from peers and your manager.

• Partner with and assist your peers on completing tasks.

• Focus on continuous learning of new technologies.

Experience you'll bring

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field;
  OR demonstrable equivalent experience.

• At least 1 year of experience in software engineering.

• Strong problem-solving skills, excellent communication and collaboration skills.

• Passionate about keeping up with modern technologies and design.

• Experience building and consuming REST APIs

Technology Must-Haves:

• C# or Python

Plus:

• Kubernetes

• Helm/ArgoCD

• Terraform

• GitHub Actions

• NoSQL databases

• GraphQL

• Azure

• Docker

• Modern RDBMS (i.e. MS SQL, Postgres, MySQL)

• ASP.NET RESTful API design

• Kafka / event-driven design

• Modern Web UI Frameworks and Libraries (i.e. Angular, React)